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The islands of Benoît Mandelbrot : fractals, chaos, and the materiality of thinking /

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Imprint:	New Haven : Bard Graduate Center : Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, [2012]
Description:	176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Mandelbrot, Benoit B. -- Exhibitions. Mandelbrot, Benoit B. Visual communication in science -- Exhibitions. Visual communication in science. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8926290

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Other authors / contributors:	Samuel, Nina, curator, editor of compilation. Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture.
ISBN:	9780300186437 (pbk.) 0300186436 (pbk.)
Notes:	This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking held at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture from September 21, 2012 through January 27, 2013. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Over the past few decades, the "pictorial turn" in the natural sciences, prompted by the computer's capacity to produce visual representations, has generated considerable theoretical interest. Poised between their materiality and the abstract level they are meant to convey, scientific images are always intersections of form and meaning. Benoît Mandelbrot (1924-2010), one of the best-known producers of digital images in scientific and industrial research, was particularly curious about the ways in which the materiality of scientific representation was able to influence the development of the ideas and abstractions the images embodied.Using images and objects found in Mandelbrot's office, this book questions the relationship between the visual and scientific reasoning in fractal geometry and chaos theory, among the most popular fields to use digital scientific imagery in the past century. These unpublished materials offer new connections between the material world and that of mathematical ideas. Work by Adrien Douady and Otto Rössler provides historical depth to the analysis"--

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Introduction
The Visibility of Islands: On Imagination, Seduction, and Materiality
Found Images I: Islands of Discovery: Sequentiality, Scribbles, and the Waste of Thought Processes
Pictures of a Higher Order
Found Images II: Order, Disorder, Beauty
Seeing Order in Disorder
Found Images III: Images of Reality
The Fractal View: Nature in Mandelbrot's Geometry
Found Images IV: Pictures of Chance
Chains of Chance: A Convoluted History of Pattern Recognition
Found Images V: Scaling as Pictorial Strategy: Scale Ambivalence and Openness to Interpretation
Scalebound Bauhaus
The Eye Is Not Specialized! Benoît Mandelbrot Talks with
Bibliography
Index
Photographic Credits

The islands of Benoît Mandelbrot : fractals, chaos, and the materiality of thinking /

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